Rewinding to Tuesday 28 July 1981…

Tuesday · Wallsend, England, United Kingdom

Michael, you arrived on 28 July 1981 in Wallsend.

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01The weather outside

A high of 19°C in Wallsend.

19°C/ 65°F high

Low of 13°C · 0.2 mm of precipitation · wind up to 14 mph

The sun rose at 05:07 and set at 21:16 — 16h 9m of daylight.

02The sky that night

A waning crescent watched over you.

7% lit · 27 days into its cycle

Looking up from Wallsend that evening, you could have spotted Venus, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.

It was summer in your half of the world.

The Moon was 228,848 miles away — closer than usual.

03On every radio

The chart-topper that week: “The One That You Love”

by Air Supply — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week, taking over from “Bette Davis Eyes”.

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04What a pound bought

Your first receipt.

GENERAL STORE

PRICES IN UNITED KINGDOM · 1981-07-28

ITEM1981TODAYSliced white loaf800 g£0.37£1.44Litre of milkfresh£0.33£1.17Kilo of flourwheat£0.27£0.57Kilo of bananas1 kg£0.63£1.05Kilo of sugarwhite£0.39£1.18Kilo of chickenwhole£1.54£3.87

Measured shop prices

Prices: Office for National Statistics (UK)

05Your life in numbers

Since that day, you have lived…

0

seconds

and counting, right now

0

heartbeats

at a resting average of 80 a minute

0

breaths

give or take a few yawns

0

sunrises

2,362 weeks of them

0

full moons

have risen since your first night

0.00B

miles traveled

45 laps around the Sun

06Born under

A Tuesday's child, under Leo.

Star sign

Leo

Fire sign

Chinese zodiac

Rooster

Metal Rooster

Birthstone

Ruby

for your month

Birth flower

Larkspur

for your month

Generation

Millennials

1981–1996

Day of the week

Tuesday

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